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The shooting death of a Brooklyn father out walking his dog may have been a case of mistaken identity, police told a New York Criminal Lawyerhttps://criminaldefense.1800nynylaw.com/.

The 31-year-old man was only a block away from home in the Marcus Garvey Houses in Brownsville when he was shot in the head, just after midnight, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

“He was just out walking the dog like he does every night,” the victim’s mother related to a New York Criminal Lawyer. The slain man lived with his mother at the time of the shooting. “My son does not bother anyone. He was a very good son. He didn’t do anything wrong.”

The state has charged a Montauk marina and two other firms with dredging and other work in wetlands without a permit, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. An environmental group tipped the state off to the illegal activity.

Several notices of violation were delivered to the marina and the two businesses, from the State Department of Environmental Conservation based on information from the environmental group.

A DEC regional director informed a New York Criminal Lawyer that the charges involve a dredging project that began in May. The environmental group filed a complaint about a road that had been built at the marina to allow heavy equipment to enter the regulated tidal wetlands and begin dredging the marina. Photo evidence provided by the environmental group showed a lagoon was constructed for drainage purposes, complete with discharge pipes that channeled silt and sediment into Lake Montaulk.

A 19-year-old Brooklyn man was chased by police though city streets, apparently leaving his clothes behind. The police were trying to arrest him on an outstanding warrant, but the young man fled instead – completely nude. “He was completely naked!” a witness who saw the events transpire told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Police came to the young man’s Kingston Ave. home in Crown Heights at about 8:30 a.m. and woke him from his sleep. They supplied him with a blanket when they realized he was naked. Without warning, he ran from his apartment, leaving the blanket behind.

Many onlookers found the four-block chase amusing, while others were shocked and startled. One police officer was injured during the pursuit when he fell through a metal sidewalk grate. He dropped approximately 10 feet to land in a Dean St. basement.

Though nearly forgotten in the wake of the latest terror cases, such as the attempted Times Square car bombing and the subway bombing plot of 2009, two defendants charged with working on a plan to attack Kennedy Airport in 2007 is about to begin in Brooklyn. The role of a government informant may end up being vital to the case, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

A former Kennedy baggage handler, age 66, and an engineer and former member of the Guyana parliament, age 58, are charged with conspiring to explode tanks full of jet fuel and the Buckeye Pipeline, which supplies jet fuel to airports in the area.

Prosecutors related to New York Criminal Lawyers that the conspirators sought assistance for their plot, code-named “Chicken Farm”, from a radical Islamic group in the Caribbean, in addition to looking for aid from an al-Qaida operative and terror groups with ties to Iran.

There are some heroin addicts who are lucky enough to have friends call 911 when they happen to overdose. There are many more whose friends are afraid to call the authorities for fear of arrest, experts told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

A Long Island organization is attempting to change that by lobbying for a law which would give limited immunity from prosecution for possession of a small amount of drugs or alcohol for minors, to people seeking emergency medical attention for someone who is overdosing, a doctor announced to New York Criminal Lawyers.

“There’s a one- to three-hour window before an overdose becomes a fatality,” the doctor related to a New York Criminal Lawyer. “It’s enough time to save a life.” He concluded by saying most overdose victims survive if they receive medical attention in time.

Manhattan prosecutors are attempting to carve away the sale of illegal knives by removing them from city stores, according to New York Criminal Lawyers.

Investigators bought unlawful knives, such as switchblades and gravity knives from 14 different locations, including several prominent chains in the New York area.

Some of the stores have already made an agreement to cease the sale of these knives, hand over their inventories to the authorities, and turn over any proceeds made from the sale of the knives – totaling about $1.9 million – to a public awareness campaign.

New York Criminal Lawyers are investigating a case in which a cross-dressing male prostitute stole $4,500 from a West Village eatery. The establishment is known for hosting a number of celebrities, according to police.

The 18-year-old prostitute, dressed in skirt and blouse, strolled into a Bank Street eatery, near Greenwich Street at 9:40 p.m. on June 2 and asked to use the restroom, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The suspect then went to the manager’s office instead. The 18-year-old man, who has a long rap sheet which includes a number of arrests for prostitution, took an envelope full of cash from the manager’s office and fled the scene, sources said.

The co-owner and manager of the establishment did not learn that the money was missing until the end of the night, said a New York Criminal Lawyer. There was surveillance video available that displayed what had occurred and the footage was turned over to the police, who subsequently arrested the suspect. With the arrest of the suspect, the case is considered closed and no further action is deemed to be necessary. It is unknown whether the suspect has other similar charges to face.

A local publicist was able to avoid spending any time in prison after pleading for her sentence to be reduced to a fine, two years on probation, and 300 hours of community service, says New York Criminal Lawyer.

The woman reportedly hacked into two of her rival publicists’ cell phones and listened to their calls. She was able to hack the phones at least 337 times over the course of the last year. The woman had shared a former boyfriend with both of the victims, and may have used this connection to help her hack their accounts, reports a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Originally, the woman had been charged with listening in on the phone calls of at least two other women, but the District Attorney apparently only felt confident of conviction on the two victims that were cited in the case.

Last year, a local man made the news by starting a raffle to give away a one million dollar home to the winner, tells a New York Criminal Lawyer. Each ticket was sold for $50, so as many can imagine, many tickets were sold in hope of winning the lakefront home.

According to a New York Criminal Attorney, complaints were made many months after the tickets went on sale when no winner was announced. Some believed that the man may have never intended to give the home away, but rather con all the buyers out of their money. As much as a few hundred thousand dollars may have been pocketed by the accused, who has since said that the raffle was cancelled.

The New York Criminal Lawyer said that the raffle had been repeatedly rescheduled, possibly in an attempt to confuse the ticket buyers or trick them into thinking that someone else had won. The website for the raffle stated one of the reasons for the cancellation is a misunderstanding of some laws associated with raffles. No one has received a refund for their ticket.

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A New York Police commander is being sued for sexual discrimination by one of his former assistants, reports a New York Discrimination Lawyer. The commander stands accused of having an affair with his former Compstat assistant and part-time driver. To make matters worse, he has just admitted to having lied under oath. According to a New York Criminal Lawyer, he had previously denied the affair while under oath at a deposition.

After the commander found out that the city’s Law Department would no longer be representing him, his lawyer issued a statement that the accused wished to clarify his prior statement and that he had indeed had an affair with his former underling. The woman he is said to have had an affair with has not been named, as she is not the defendant in the case, but it is rather another officer saying that the commander discriminates against female police officers that he supervises.

The main form of discrimination appears to have come in the benefits bestowed upon his alleged mistress, how is said to have received additional overtime and the ability to make her own schedule. No word as of yet as to whether the commander will be charged for perjuring himself during his deposition, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

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